{"id":2025161,"date":"2023-09-07T20:13:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T00:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jim-jordan-investigates-jack-smiths-abusive-tactics-in-trump-documents-case\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T20:15:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T00:15:02","slug":"jim-jordan-investigates-jack-smiths-abusive-tactics-in-trump-documents-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jim-jordan-investigates-jack-smiths-abusive-tactics-in-trump-documents-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Jordan probes Jack Smith&#8217;s &#8216;unfair methods&#8217; in Trump files lawsuit."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjim-jordan-investigates-jack-smiths-abusive-tactics-in-trump-documents-case%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2025161&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>House Judiciary Committee \u200bChairman Demands Records \u200dfrom Special Counsel&#8217;s Office<\/h2>\n<p>House Judiciary \u200dCommittee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tech-expert-confirms-voting-machines-connected-to-internet-during-ga-senate-subcommittee-on-elections\/\" title=\"Tech expert confirms voting machines connected to internet during Ga. senate subcommittee on elections\">taking action<\/a> \u200bafter allegations of improper pressure surfaced in the case involving former President Donald Trump&#8217;s classified documents. Jordan has sent\u200b a letter to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sidney-powell-is-an-american-legal-giant\/\" title=\"Sidney Powell Is an American Legal Giant\">special counsel<\/a> \u2063Jack Smith&#8217;s\u200d office, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jim-jordan-investigates-jack-smiths-abusive-tactics-in-trump-documents-case\/\" title=\"Jim Jordan probes Jack Smith's 'unfair methods' in Trump files lawsuit.\">demanding records\u200d related<\/a> to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyer \u200bStanley Woodward, who represents Walt Nauta, an aide to the former president charged alongside\u2064 Trump, claimed that he felt coerced to cooperate\u200b with Smith&#8217;s office. Jordan cited\u200d these reports in his \u200dletter to Smith, expressing \u200bserious concerns about the tactics\u200d employed by the \u2064Office of\u200c the Special Counsel.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;This attempt \u200bto inappropriately\u2062 coerce Mr. Woodward raises serious concerns \u2064about the abusive tactics of the Office of the Special Counsel,&#8221; Jordan wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Woodward alleged that\u200b during a meeting last fall, the Justice Department&#8217;s chief of counterintelligence, Jay Bratt, brought up Woodward&#8217;s application\u200c for a judgeship. Prosecutors were trying to convince Woodward that\u200c Nauta had\u200b lied \u2064and should cooperate in the \u2063investigation. Jordan criticized Bratt&#8217;s actions, stating that they call into question the impartiality and mission of the Department.<\/p>\n<p>In court filings, \u200cWoodward also \u200bmentioned another client, Mar-a-Lago \u2062IT worker Yuscil Taveras, who signed \u200ba \u200b&#8221;non-prosecution&#8221; \u2062agreement with prosecutors. Taveras \u2063began working \u2064with\u2063 Smith&#8217;s team after being informed \u200bthat Woodward&#8217;s representation of both clients could create conflicting\u200c interests.<\/p>\n<p>Taveras&#8217;s testimony led \u200bto a superseding indictment of \u2063Trump,\u200c Nauta, and a \u200dthird\u2064 co-defendant, Carlos de Oliveira,\u2064 alleging their involvement in attempting to delete Mar-a-Lago security\u200b camera footage. Woodward filed a complaint against Smith&#8217;s team, claiming that the cooperation agreement \u2063was\u200d only offered to Taveras after he consulted with\u200d outside\u200b counsel.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan has been actively sending\u200b letters to prosecutors regarding Trump \u200dand his allies in various criminal \u200cinvestigations. \u200bRecently, Fulton County\u200b District Attorney Fani Willis reprimanded Jordan for attempting to invoke congressional authority over her jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>In \u200chis request for documents, Jordan seeks information related to Woodward&#8217;s discussions with prosecutors, as well as communications among senior DOJ officials regarding the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feds-want-nra-lawyer-kicked-off-bankruptcy-case\/\" title=\"Feds Want NRA Lawyer Kicked Off Bankruptcy Case\u00a0\">attorney&#8217;<\/a>s past and current clients involved in the government&#8217;s investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan has set a deadline of September 21 for Smith to provide \u200cthe requested documents.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full letter below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) is seeking records from special counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s office. This comes after lawyer Stanley Woodward, representing defendant Walt Nauta in the classified documents case involving former President Donald Trump, claimed improper pressure. Nauta, an aide to Trump, is charged with conspiring alongside the former president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2025162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2025161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2025161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2025162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2025161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2025161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2025161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}